Israeli Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, several Palestinians after firing many gas bombs and concussion grenades at them, while many nonviolent activists were planting trees in Palestinian lands, in Beit Fajjar town,…
Israeli Soldiers Kill Two Palestinian Teens, Injure Eighteen, In Gaza
The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has confirmed, Friday, that Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinian teens, 18 and 14 years of age, and injured at least eighteen…
Palestinian Prisoner Dies In Israeli Prison
A Palestinian prisoner, held by Israel in Beersheba (Be’er as-Sabe’) prison, died on Friday, due to the lack of adequate medical treatment, the media department of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee…
PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (31 January – 06 February 2019)
Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), for the week of 31 January – 06 February, 2019. Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against…
EU Report: Over 15,000 Settlement Units Built During 2018
The advancement of settlement units continued at an unprecedented high level during the second half of 2018 (July-December), according to a recent EU report on Israeli settlements in the occupied…
Palestinian Child Loses Eye to Israeli Sniper
Palestinian child Muhammad Al-Najjar (12) is living a severe psychological shock after losing his right eye by an Israeli sniper’s bullet, during his participation in the Great Return March protests,…
Foreign Ministry: Warsaw Conference is an American Conspiracy
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said, on Thursday, that the upcoming Warsaw conference called for by the United States is an American conspiracy intended to get the…
US Blocks UN Motion against Israeli Expulsion of TIPH Monitors
The US has blocked yet another UN Security Council draft resolution that would condemn Israel for expelling an international observer group tasked with safeguarding Palestinians, in the flashpoint West Bank…
Two ISM Members Abducted for Securing Movement of Palestinian Students
Two members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) were detained by Israeli soldiers, on Thursday, while securing movement of elementary school students in the Israeli occupied section of the southern…
Making Art From The Remnants Of War
Handicraft prepared by Akram Warah and his family from the wreckage of war artifacts. Credit: Alethea Kanas For at least a decade, Palestinian refugees lived in makeshift tents precariously in…
Report: Palestinian Christian Diplomacy in Fight against Christian Zionists
by Daoud Kuttab- Amman The Palestinian government is turning to its own Christian community and even its evangelicals to campaign against distorted Christian Zionists. Palestinian foreign ministry officials were in…
PCHR: “Death of Detainee Fares Baroud: An Example of Deliberate Negligence”
Yesterday, 06 February 2019, the Palestinian detainee who spent 28 years in the Israeli jails, Fares Mohammed Baroud (51), from al-Shati’ refugee camp in western Gaza City, died only hours…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Thursday, six Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS stated that the…
Detainee Malek Hamed Forced Into Solitary Confinement
A Palestinian political prisoner at the Ramon Israeli prison was forced into solitary confinement, on Wednesday at night, when he threw boiling water at a soldier after the guards attacked…
Al-Arakib Bedouin Village Destroyed For The 140th Time
The Israeli Authorities demolished, Thursday, the al-Arakib Bedouin Palestinian village, in the Negev, for the 140th consecutive times, after dozens of soldiers and police officers invaded it. The army, accompanied…
Detainees’ Committee Demands Autopsy On Deceased Detainee
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee has demanded Israel to perform an autopsy on the corpse of a detainee who died, Wednesday, shortly after being moved to an Israeli hospital.…
Dublin National Union of Journalists to Support Eurovision Boycott
(L to R) Celebrities, public figures & activists at Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge during a launch of the Irish Call to Boycott Eurovision 2019 in Israel on June 27, 2018 (Image:…
Mobile Caravans Erected by Israeli Colonists in Jenin
Israeli settlers, on Wednesday, set up new mobile caravans on Palestinian-owned agricultural lands between Yaabad town and Zabda village, south of the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin. The…
Israeli Tender for Jerusalem Railway Rejected by Spanish Company
A Spanish company announced, yesterday, that it had rejected an Israeli tender to build part of the Jerusalem railway, which will cut deep into occupied Palestinian territory. Construcciones y Auxiliar…
US Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against Academic Boycott Of Israel
by Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine, now out from Haymarket Books. A federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday…
Anti-BDS Bill Passes US Senate
The Republican-controlled United States Senate has passed legislation that would allow state and local governments to sanction those who support the BDS movement (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) against Israel, with…
Palestinian Detainee Dies From Medical Neglect In Israeli Prison
The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported, on Wednesday evening, that a Palestinian detainee from Gaza, who has been held by Israel since 1991, died from serious complications resulting from being…
Israeli Soldiers Fire Artillery Shells Into Southern Gaza
Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at night, several artillery shells into Palestinian areas, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The WAFA Palestinian News Agency…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian, Confiscate His Car And Cash, In Hebron
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, a Palestinian man, and confiscated his car and a large sum of money, in Hebron governorate, in the southern part of the West Bank.…
Army Displaces Dozens Of Bedouin Families To Conduct Military Training
Israeli soldiers displaced, on Wednesday morning, dozens of Bedouin Palestinian families from their tents and dwellings in several parts of the West Bank’s Northern Plains, in order to conduct military…
Report: “Israeli Courts Imposed More Than 60.000 Shekels In Fines On Detained Children, In January”
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainee Committee has reported that Israeli military courts have imposed more than 60.000 Shekels in fines on Palestinian children who were abducted by the soldiers and…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Ten Palestinians In the West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, at least ten Palestinians, including a former legislative council member, from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian…
Illegal Israeli Colonists Attack Archeological Site, Uproot Trees, Near Nablus
A group of illegal fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, earlier Wednesday, an archeological site, south of Jaloud village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and caused damage,…
Israeli Minister and Settlers Raid Al-Aqsa Mosque
The head of the Public Relations office of the Islamic Endowment Department, Firas al-Dibs, told Maan News Agency that the Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Uri Ariel, along with many settlers…
Israeli Court Refuses To Release Detained Ashraf Na’alwa’s Mother, And His Brother
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Monday, that the Israeli military court in Ofer prison, near Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank, has denied an appeal…
Samidoun Calls for Action to Save Life of Walid Khaled Sharaf
Palestinian prisoner Walid Khaled Sharaf, 25, from Abu Dis in occupied Jerusalem, is suffering from serious illness in Ramle prison clinic. Sharaf is jailed without charge or trial under administrative…
Palestinian Professors’ Unions Urge Pitzer College to Uphold Faculty Vote to Suspend Study Abroad with Complicit Israeli Institutions
Via BNC Official. February 5, 2019 / By Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) / United States The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) supports the…
Bulldozers Raze Lands in Southern Gaza
Several Israeli military vehicles raided Palestinian lands along the eastern borders of Khan Younis, in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. Locals told Ma’an that four large D-9 Israeli…
Cancer Patients Face Slow Death in Gaza
About 8515 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip are facing a fate worse than death, as they do not have adequate resources for medical treatment, Al Mezan Center for Human…
Abbas: PA Will Not Take Part in Any Conference Not Based on UN Resolutions
Mahmoud Abbas welcoming in Ramallah his Austrian counterpart Alexander Van der Bellen. (WAFA Images / Thayer Ghanayem) PA President Mahmoud Abbas said, on Tuesday, that he will not take part…
Israel Surfaces Plan to Seize Land Southeastern Jerusalem
Head of the committee for the defense of East Jerusalem land, Bassam Bahr, says there is an Israeli plan to seize more than a thousand dunams of agricultural land, including…
OCHA Report: Israeli Settler Attacks Against Palestinians on the Rise
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA] in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, published a report for the period of January 15 -28, 2019, finding an increase…
Soldiers Detain Five Teachers, One Child, Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers detained, Tuesday, five Palestinian teachers and one child, in Hebron’s Old city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and held them in Keryat Arba’ illegal…
Illegal Colonialist Settlers Uproot Olive Saplings Near Hebron
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers uprooted, Tuesday, many olive saplings in the al-Hamra area, east of Yatta town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied…
Soldiers Uproot 450 Olive Trees In Northern Plains of West Bank
On Tuesday, dozens of Israeli soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers, invaded Palestinian orchards in Bardala village, in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, and uprooted at least 450 olive trees. Media sources…
PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct 33 Palestinians In West Bank”
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, 33 Palestinians from their homes after invading and violently searching them, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society…
Court of First Instance in Khan Younis Issues Death Sentence
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019, the Court of First Instance in Khan Younis sentenced to death Y.A., 30, a resident of Al-Jneena neighborhood in Rafah district, after he was indicted…
Mayor Hailing from Palestine Becomes President of El Salvador
Nayib Bukele, whose family is originally from the occupied Palestinian territories, won El Salvador’s presidential elections, getting more votes than his three rivals combined to usher out the two parties…
Israel Begins Construction of Massive Barrier along Gaza Border (VIDEO)
Israel began construction on the over-ground portion of the Gaza border barrier that will connect to the under-construction sea barrier aimed at preventing the movement of the Hamas military wing…
Palestinian Documentary Wins 33rd Goya Award (VIDEO)
The documentary film “Gaza”, directed by Gary Keane and Andrew McConnell, won the “Best Documentary Short Film” Premios Goya Award on Sunday, at the Goya Awards, in Spain. The film…
“Hundred Million Dollar Home” Hebron Shop Keeper Punished for Resistance to Occupation
02/02/19 | International Solidarity Movement | Al-Khalil Team Today, our good friend Abdulraouf Al-Mohtaseb, the famous owner of the 100 Million Dollar Home, had his shop enclosed by steel barricades. Click here…
Seven Women Expelled from Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli occupation authorities, on Sunday night, banned seven Palestinian women from accessing Al-Aqsa Mosque for two weeks. An Israeli court held a trial for a number of them, on Monday. Israeli…
Settlers Storm Land, Set Up Mobile Home near Bethlehem
Israeli settlers, Monday, set up a mobile home on a plot of land belonging to the southern West Bank village of Tuqu, east of Bethlehem, said a local activist. Head…
Soldiers Abduct Youth on Gaza Border, Attack Farmers
Israeli forces, on Monday morning, took a Palestinian youth into custody, claiming he attempted to cross the Israeli fence from the southern Gaza Strip. According to the second Hebrew channel,…
Israeli Paramilitary Settlers Post Threats to Palestinian Farmers
The residents of Tekoa village, near Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank, were shocked to find placards posted around their village on Sunday by Israeli military settlers…
Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Child Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday evening, a Palestinian child from the al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Local nonviolent activist, Ibrahim Awadallah, said the soldiers invaded…
Israeli Soldiers Kill One Palestinian, Injure Another, Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers killed, on Monday evening, one Palestinian teen and injured another, near the entrance of the al-Jalama village, northeast of Jenin in northern West Bank. The army claimed that…
Illegal Colonists Deface Palestinian Mosque Near Ramallah
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers infiltrated, on Monday at dawn, into Deir Dibwan village, east of the central West Bank city or Ramallah, and defaced a mosque and…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seventeen Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, at least seventeen Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. The…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians In Gaza
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday and Sunday, six young Palestinian men from the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli army stated that the soldiers arrested, Monday, a young Palestinian man, who…
Palestinian Succumbs to Wounds in Gaza
A Palestinian man succumbed, Sunday, to critical wounds he sustained last week, as Israeli forces attacked the “Great Return March” protests along Gaza’s borders Ahmad Ghazi Abu Jabal, 30, died…
Orphaned Children From Gaza Protest
Hundreds of orphans from the besieged Gaza Strip gathered near the Erez Crosing, in the northern Gaza Strip, to protest the cutting of their families’ salaries. The orphans, victims of…
UNRWA Launches Emergency Appeal for Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Ma’an News Agency reports that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has officially launched its 2019 Syria Regional Crisis Emergency Appeal (Syria Appeal). UNRWA said,…
Erdogan: Turkey Will Not Turn Its Back On Palestine
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Saturday, said that Turkey will not “turn its back” on the Palestinian cause or people, adding that Ankara will share “all means available” for ending…
Amani: A Young Human Rights Defender Inspiring Palestinian Women
1. Meet Amani. She is a 26 year old and works at the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling. Amani’s days are very full. Here she is picking up…
Israeli Military Abducts 10 Palestinians in Pre-dawn Raids in Bethlehem and Hebron
In pre-dawn raids Sunday morning in the southern part of the West Bank, Israeli forces raided the homes of ten Palestinians and took all ten from their beds, forcing them…
Why did Hamas Refuse Aid Money from Qatar?
Scholar Imad Al-Soos discusses the massive changes in the relationship between the Israeli government and Hamas in Gaza, over past months, and how Hamas’ new policies affect the lives of…
380 Palestinians, Including 67 Children, Detained In January (VIDEO)
Israeli forces took into custody some 380 Palestinians, including 5 women and 67 children, in January of 2019, the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said on Saturday. In a statement,…
Midnight Horror in Gaza
by Rana Shubair, author of In Gaza I Dare to Dream. “Mom, do they bomb residential buildings?, asked one of my daughters in fear. And my response again came in the…
Arrest Warrants Issued against Two Former Palestinian Officials
The Arab Interpol, of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers, issued an arrest warrant against two Palestinian former officials, Khaled Salam and Walid Najjab. The warrant was placed at all…
MADA Condemns Wave of Attacks on Journalists in West Bank and Gaza
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) condemned the wave of arrests and detentions carried out by Palestinian security services in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip…
Israeli Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers injured, on Saturday evening, several Palestinians in the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Several armored military jeeps invaded the town from its main…
“Miles Of Smiles 35” Scheduled To Arrive In Gaza Sunday
“Miles Of Smiles 35” humanitarian solidarity convoy is scheduled to arrive in the besieged and improvised Gaza Strip this Sunday through Egypt to provide some of the urgently aid, especially…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians In Hebron
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Saturday at dawn, two Palestinians from the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron. Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers abducted Mohammad Khader al-‘Amour, from the…
BTS Testimonies: “You hate everyone.”
[[Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada, and have taken it upon themselves to…
UPDATE: On 45th Friday of Great March of Return and Breaking Siege, Israeli Forces Wound 98 Civilians, including 15 Children, 4 Women; 2 of them Paramedics, and 1 Journalist
02/01/19 Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) On Friday afternoon, 01 February, 2019, in use of excessive force against peaceful protesters on the 45th Friday of the Great March of Return…
Palestine, The Women’s March & Imperial Feminism
Azeezah Kanji (JD, LLM in Islamic Law) is a legal academic and writer based in Toronto. Recent assaults on the reputation of Women’s March cochair and prominent black American activist…
Assistance from USAID in West Bank, Gaza Officially Over
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has ended all assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip, a US official confirmed on Friday. According…
Ashrawi: Netanyahu Coalition Generates Culture of Hate and Racism
Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hanan Ashrawi, said in a statement on Friday that the Israeli hardline coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible…
Human Rights Watch Film Festival to Feature Palestinian Film ‘Screwdriver’ (Trailer)
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be presented in London from March 13-22, 2019, featuring 15 award-winning documentary and feature films, Human Rights Watch said today. The international line-up of films…
Israeli Soldiers Injure 32 Palestinians In Gaza
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday 32 Palestinians during the Great Return March processions, ongoing for the 45th consecutive week, near the perimeter fence in the eastern parts of the besieged and…
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Seven Palestinians Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, seven Palestinians with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets, and caused many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, after attacking a nonviolent procession in the…
Soldiers Attack The Weekly Procession In Bil’in
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, dozens of Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists, participating in the weekly nonviolent procession against the illegal Annexation Wall and colonies in Bil’in village, west of…
Israeli Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians In Ni’lin
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, dozens of nonviolent protesters during the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Ni’lin village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.…
Jerusalemite Palestinian Forced To Demolish Sections Of His Own Home
On Friday, a Palestinian man had to demolish parts of his home in Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied East Jerusalem, to avoid excessively high fines and fees, imposed by the City…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Schoolteacher In Jenin
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, a Palestinian schoolteacher from Kafr Dan village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Media sources in Jenin said the soldiers…
Soldiers Abduct Fateh Secretary In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday evening, the secretary of Fateh movement in occupied Jerusalem, as he was crossing the al-Karama Border Terminal on his was back home. Media sources said…
PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (24 – 30 January 2019)
Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), for the week of 24 – 30 January, 2019. 3 Palestinian civilians, including a boy and a girl,…
Israel’s New Commander in Chief: “We’ll Create a Deadlier Army!”
Professor Eyal Weizman studied the philosophy that guides Aviv Kochavi, the officer who was just appointed commander of the Israeli military. It is a philosophy that objectifies Palestinians and ignores…
Amnesty International Threatened by Israeli Ban
An Israeli minister, on Wednesday, threatened to ban human rights group Amnesty International from the country, for its criticism of some tourism companies. Gilad Erdan, the minister of public security,…
Two Silwan Families Left Homeless by Demolition
Fourteen family members were left homeless on Thursday, after the Israeli Civil Administration ordered for their homes to be demolished, in Silwan town, occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information…
B’Tselem: Barghouti Shot Point Blank, Did Not Flee
Israeli Information Center for Human Rights B’Tselem refuted, in a report, Israeli security claims that Saleh Barghouti had tried to flee the scene after being involved in a drive-by shooting…
Teen Sustains Multiple Fractures after Beating from Israeli Soldiers
A Palestinian has teenager sustained multiple fractures in his legs after being assaulted by Israeli soldiers near Jenin city, in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent…
Report: Israel Stealing Resources in Occupied Golan
Al-Marsad has published a new legal report that investigates the implications of a recent Israeli project which proposes to develop a massive wind farm in the occupied Syrian Golan (‘Golan’). The…
Soldiers Shoot And Abduct A Palestinian In Al-Khader
Israeli soldiers shot and abducted, on Thursday at night, a young Palestinian man near the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Local sources said the soldiers…
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Three Palestinian Schoolchildren, Two Seriously, In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, Teqoua’ town, southeast of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and fired live rounds at schoolchildren protesting the invasion, wounding three of them, including two who…
Soldiers Assault Family, Destroy Their Furniture, In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, a Palestinian home in the Sahla area, in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, before assaulting the family,…
Israeli police attack protest against police brutality in Tel Aviv
A protest of several thousand Ethiopian-Israelis and their supporters in Tel Aviv were attacked by Israeli police on Wednesday, when they were demonstrating against the police killing of 24-year old…
Al-Arakib Bedouin Village Demolished For 139th Time
Israeli soldiers, police officers and personnel of the so-called “Negev Development Authority” invaded, Thursday, the al-Arakib Bedouin village, in the Negev, and demolished it for the 139th consecutive time. The…
Israeli Colonialist Settlers Attack Shepherds In Northern Plains
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, Thursday, many Palestinian shepherds in grazing lands in the al-Farisiyya area, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian Human…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eleven Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, at least eleven Palestinians during violent invasions and searches of homes across the occupied West Bank, and confiscated thousands of Shekels in Hebron,…
Settlers Invade Al-Aqsa Mosque
Dozens of Israeli illegal settlers, on Wednesday morning, broke into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound via the Mughrabi {Moroccan} gate under heavy military protection. Jerusalemite sources reported, according to…
Army Installs Checkpoint at Entrance to Ras Karkar
Israeli forces, on Tuesday, closed the western entrance to Ras Karkar village, northwest of Ramallah, occupied West Bank, with an iron swing barrier. Eyewitnesses told Quds Press that an Israeli…
Settlers Vandalize Palestinian Vehicles in Nablus
Extremist Israeli settlers vandalized several Palestinian vehicles in al-Lubban al-Sharqiyyeh village, south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, on Wednesday morning. Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors…
WHO: Injured Journalist Prevented from Receiving Healthcare
The World Health Organisation issued its monthly report entitled “Health Access Barriers for Patients in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, in which the organisation highlighted the case of ALRAY Media Agency’s…